It took us about half a year to get billing set up with them. Completely pointless shit show that basically every other company on the planet manages, with Google's own unique weirdness about talking with icky customers.
It was an unpleasant process, and then we dropped them anyway (but not because they suck at billing).
A huge swath of the consumer market in physical products is Chinese goods. Why would your average nontechnical, fairly apolitical, non-foreign policy or intelligence news following person draw a distinction?
They see a fun app, they play with it. If they're even aware of censorship issues or geopolitical power games, that seems very distant from some app that amuses them for a few minutes a day.
Perl is really great at text processing. Pretty much any kind. A lot of folks dislike first-class regexes, but if they're magic in a lot of contexts like this.
My second remaining use is experimental coding. It is probably about familiarity and experience (I've been writing perl since Perl 4), but I find it to be the most fluid, most "fun" language for noodling around and trying out ideas.
I use Python for things other people will have to work on, because it is the current popular kid, so most folks have at least seen it. Not because I especially like it - the GIL is still a performance killer, purity of essence arguments keep obviously useful things (like case statements) out, and (as I'm sure will be demonstrated shortly) there are always annoying people around to condescendingly tell you why you're wrong to want things like case statements.
You pretty clearly have very little familiarity with "Perl culture" and even less with Perl6/Raku.
Perl 5 is in decline, no doubt. But it isn't because whomever you're visualizing when you wrote the above is an annoying nerd. People can and do disagree on the 'why'; I personally think it is the general decline of Unix-style syntax combined with the natural ebb and flow of language evolution.
If "what you've seen" is watching the compiler developers work through language design, the origin of your misconception at least makes a little sense, even if that's obviously a weird, unfair basis.
By all means, hate on perlmonks.org if you like. Just don't spread insulting nonsense.
I've screened people like you describe, but the only time I've interviewed them face-to-face was when they didn't have a technical phone screen for whatever reason.
FWIW, one of the ways I screen companies when I'm looking is whiteboard problems. I refuse them and move on. In my experience, only HugeCos and places with problems use them. I'm sure that's not true, but I have a necessarily small sample-size, and skipping over firms that do it has worked well for me so far, and there are plenty of fish in the sea. (I do in fact suck at writing on whiteboards, I just don't consider it a skill worth developing to pursue jobs I probably don't want.)
Same here. It is used internally here as a written abbreviation, and we use it as a prefix in a numbering scheme to identify a certain category of defects, but I don't think I've ever heard anyone use it verbally.
If you're not just repeating an ancient talking point and actually don't understand this, it would be well worth spending some time on Wikipedia coming up to speed on the goals of antitrust enforcement.
The short version is that the actions of a non-monopolist are looked at very differently than the actions of a monopolist.
Additionally, you're dead wrong about "every Linux distribution", and even if you weren't, the fact that there are many of them would moot an antitrust argument.
Tying two bricks together doesn't make them float.